The National Adoption Information Clearing House
The National Adoption Information Clearing House offers links to almost 100 adoption newsletters and publications that address everything from general adoption issues to specific ones, including international adoptions, adoptions by gays and lesbians, open adoption, single adoption and more. (more…)

The low-fat proponents cited a study that showed people lost weight better on a diet rich in plant foods and low in fat. The alternative-fat proponents graphed the results of six studies that showed weight loss from low-fat diets was mostly in the first three to six months, after which weight plateaued or was gained. (more…)

She is “everywoman.” Isabella, a former patient, is bright, outgoing, warm and funny. She is also very successful in her career as a photographer. But Izzy has a deep, dark secret. She doesn’t know how to express displeasure, ask for what she needs, or stop putting everyone else’s wants before her own. Sound familiar? (more…)

However, treatment advances over the past decade have included a combined chemotherapy regimen for disease involving lymph nodes (which has raised survival rates from 40 percent to 60 percent), and surgical removal of liver metastases in certain patients (raising survival rates from less than 10 percent to more than 25 percent in those patients). (more…)

Fifth disease is a viral childhood illness. It is so named because it is placed among the five common infections — along with measles, German measles (rubella), roseola and scarlet fever — that cause a rash and fever, and that are contagious. (more…)